A mate's near death experience at the ring!

[mikes86]

Put it in 1080p full screen

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My mate driving the RRR SR2 was following a BMW M3 when the rear suspension collapses on the beamer. The rear spring falls out, bounces off the armco, swings across the track and rebounds off the steering wheel missing his head by inches!! Absolutely mental....

​Screen grab just before impact.

The steering wheel afterwards.

 

[Šįk]

Crazy! Very lucky.

 

[sbridgey]

Very, very lucky man.

 

[Tony Hunter]

Should be German clutter, not French. He was lucky indeed!!!

 

[George@RTR_Parts]

Fooook me!

Bloody lucky, that could have been a lot worse!

Glad he's ok.

 

[BoatNonce]

Holy s**t!

Very, very lucky guy.

 

[-J-]

Not what you expect to see... Very lucky to avoid!

 

[Adamm.]

Saw that video on facebook couldn't tell what hit him though.

Pretty damn lucky that! Or unlucky? I guess its a bit of both lol.

p.s I want to know what happened to the car that lost a spring!

 

[mitch1503]

jesus, very very lucky man

 

[DaveDreads]

Exactly how Massa got his head smashed in,
although he was going a bit quicker than that.

 

[Christopher.]

Dear lord !

How many lottery tickets did he buy ?

 

[Tony Hunter]

I did read once, of a guy was driving home one eve after work, sun just creeping into his eyes, same road same sh1t, woke up 6 mths later, after being in a coma.

A lorry had come the other way, and uprooted a loose catseye, through his windscreen, and clipped the side of his head.

He didn't even see it coming or hear the windscreen smash.

​Another lucky chap.

 

[The Fatty]

Slowmo version for you:

 

[Slammed172]

Bonkers.

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

That is f**king mental!!!!!

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

F**k me sideways.

 

[Gaz.]

Crazy stuff.

 

[philmots]

Jeeeez that's so lucky. That slow mo is good, looks like saw it coming and tried to avoid, obviously nothing he could do. Just be happy he didn't move any further!

Springs are soo heavy, I'd say that probably would be the end for him. Lucky guy.

 

[Adamm.]

Well at least the lad that lost the spring is paying for a new steering wheel.

 

[Baylis]

Holy s**t, very lucky thank god for the steering wheel

 

[Steve]

Lucky man Nick!

One of his lives gone.

 

[BIGASH]

It wasn't a BMW suspension that collapsed it was a Clio 172 racecar. I saw it on Facebook earlier. The Clio is owned by Darren who runs the trackday that it happened on and he put up an apology for it happening (nothing he could do really the spring just dislocated) and he is buying a replacement wheel. Obviously could of been a lot worse but very good of Darren to do a public apology accepting it was his car and offering to put things right IMO.

 

[bright]

was just thinking that it looked very similar to a clio spring

Thats very, very lucky.

 

[SBV116]

Yeah I was going to say it looks lie a Clio spring! Fair play, inch either way could of made a huuuuuuge difference.

 

[mikes86]

It wasn't a BMW suspension that collapsed it was a Clio 172 racecar. I saw it on Facebook earlier. The Clio is owned by Darren who runs the trackday that it happened on and he put up an apology for it happening (nothing he could do really the spring just dislocated) and he is buying a replacement wheel. Obviously could of been a lot worse but very good of Darren to do a public apology accepting it was his car and offering to put things right IMO.

Ah apologies, nick did actually say it was the 172, but i convinced myself he must of been mistaken because it looked like the BMW in the video, i hadn't seen the DN facebook post!

 

[Strell]

Wow can only repeat what others have said.
Obvisouly wasn't his time. Lucky escape!

 

[Cookie]

f**king hell :|

 

[Snakey]

Off, lucky is not the word!

 

[Knuckles]

Omg!

hes so lucky he wasn't driving anything with a windscreen!

 

[JackJack]

'kin hell.

 

[Ash87]

Christ tht was lucky!

 

[dmallett]

Wondered what hit him when i watched this on FB, very lucky!

 

[2Damnsly Andy]

WOW so many things could have gone so wrong there. Very lucky indeed.

 

[Brett]

Lucky guy.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Wow, that was a near miss!

TBH a windscreen might not have helped much either!

 

[Chip-mk1]

It wasn't a BMW suspension that collapsed it was a Clio 172 racecar. I saw it on Facebook earlier. The Clio is owned by Darren who runs the trackday that it happened on and he put up an apology for it happening (nothing he could do really the spring just dislocated) and he is buying a replacement wheel. Obviously could of been a lot worse but very good of Darren to do a public apology accepting it was his car and offering to put things right IMO.

Darren is a top guy

Fair play for offering to sort it.

 

[Westyfield2]

Blimey!

 

[Ali]

Jesus!!!!

 

[Dunn]

crazy!

 

[mikes86]

Sheds a little more light on it!

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